CI-ADDO-NEW: Dialog Research Center (DialRC)

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公法111-5)资助的。目前的口语对话系统(SDS)能够实现人与机器之间有限的语言交流。DialRC为整个SDS社区提供培训、数据、公共研究平台和挑战，以推动其结果更上一层楼。DialRC为新手和高级研究人员协调研讨会和教程，提供来自已部署的SD的大量数据，提供一个可以运行研究的平台，并管理可以比较研究的挑战。DialRC的一个新方面是可以接触到大量真实用户。这就转化为可以更好地适应现实世界条件的SD，从而实现更自然、更高效的交流。其他领域的协调挑战有助于集中研究工作，并在同一环境中提供技术比较。这些挑战的结果是，该领域的调查结果大幅增加。DialRC的口语对话挑战赛将在SDS领域带来同样的变化。DialRC是信息、软件、实验技术和数据交换的中心点。它正在将美国的研究转变为一支极具竞争力和创新性的力量，促进人类与机器的互动。由于DialRC提供的协调和广泛的服务，SDS的研究人员现在能够改善每个人的信息获取。www.Dialrc.org

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Today's spoken dialogue systems (SDS) enable limited verbal communication between humans and machines. DialRC serves the whole SDS community with training, data, a common research platform and a challenge in order to push its results to the next level. DialRC coordinates workshops and tutorials for new and for advanced researchers, provides large amounts of data from deployed SDS, offers a platform where studies can be run and manages a challenge where research can be compared. A novel aspect of DialRC is the access to large quantities of real users. This translates into SDS that can be better adapted to real world conditions and thus to more natural and efficient communication. Coordinated challenges in other areas have helped focus research efforts and provided comparisons of techniques in one same environment. The result of these challenges has been a dramatic increase in findings in the area. DialRC's Spoken Dialogue Challenge will afford the same changes in the SDS domain.DialRC is a central point of exchange of information, software, experimental techniques and data. It is transforming American research into a highly competitive and innovative force for human interaction with machines. Due to the coordinated and wide-reaching services that DialRC offers, SDS researchers are now able to improve information access for everyman.www.dialrc.org